TAIYO YUDEN Group is striving to establish the company trusted by society in terms of respecting human rights and complying with relevant laws, regulations or international rules regarding labor as well as deciding on policies for human rights and labor.

Policies (CSR Code of Conduct)

Article 11 (Labor)

1. No child labor, forced labor or its support, enhancement or promotion shall be made.
2. Work conditions shall be controlled appropriately. (Wages, work hours, holidays etc.)

Article 12 (Respect of Human Rights, Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment)

1. The diversity, personality and individuality shall be respected and the work environment without any discrimination shall be ensured.
2. No power harassment or sexual harassment by authority shall be conducted.

In TAIYO YUDEN Group, child labor and forced labor are prohibited.
Each site confirms that it has reached the working age stipulated in the laws and regulations before employment, and prevents child workers from being employed.
For hiring-decided persons, we conduct explanation on labor conditions (satisfying requirements by the laws and regulations and are based on international rules), with mutual consent for labor conditions by and between management and have mutual consent from both labor and management to employ before starting work.
When TAIYO YUDEN asks employees to relocate due to employees' house relocation, as a general rule, TAIYO YUDEN will also inform the employees themselves and the labor union one month or more before the personnel relocation happens. In the event of an objection by the labor union, we will consult with the labor union until a mutual agreement is reached.

Goal

Compliance rate is 100% in all countries or regions.

FY2019 Results

(*) Please refer to Health and Safety Activities for the information of circumstances surrounding Health and Safety.

In TAIYO YUDEN Group, discriminations and inhumane treatments are prohibited.
Respecting characters and personalities of employees, no discriminations in terms of nationality, gender, religion and sexual orientation should be conducted. Also, in order to prevent any kind of harassments from taking place, we perform education on a regular basis and enhance comprehension of employees for harassments.

TAIYO YUDEN Group established an employee counseling service for religious customs. (Example of consideration: Muslim prayer room)
We also regularly conduct human rights education for guards (prevention of harassment, etc.).

For both regular and non-regular employees, TAIYO YUDEN is applying benefit programs such as medical care for health checkup, accident compensation against the difficulties or diseases caused in working, and childcare/family-care leave.

TAIYO YUDEN Group is arranging and performing Labor Human Rights Management System in order to respect human rights and ensure proper working environment.
For putting the policies into specific actions, PDCA activities are conducted at each site for further continuous improvement based on "Labor Human Rights Management Policy and Compliance Requirements."

TAIYO YUDEN Group also established human rights management related to labor issues and management standards related to working hours, and is implementing them throughout the Group.
We also carry out risk assessments regarding labor issues and actions taken throughout the Group.

Labor Human Rights Management Policy and Compliance Requirements

Education

TAIYO YUDEN Group regularly conducts training on labor human rights such as prohibition of child labor/forced labor and prohibition of discriminations and inhumane treatments in order to deepen the understanding of human rights/appropriate labor for each employee.

In Japan domestic group, 4,521 employees had E-learning & test was performed in January, 2020.